The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-12
Farm Notes.

Farm Notes.
Late plcughing will kill out cutworms.
Attention cannot be directed to the i'm
portance of so doing too frequently.
Mutton may be cured and smoked in the
same manner as venison, and it is consid-
cred nearly equal to venison by those who
nave used il smoked.
Cement floors are not rat proof unless
pounded glass be mixed with the cement
before the laying of the floor. The ordin-
airy glass Stag from glass factories Is excel
lent for the purpose, and will cost but lit
tie, as 1t is usually thrown away as ref
use.
To protect trees from the girdling of
mice, clear away the earth at the base,
wrap pi zee of two-ply tarred paper
around the tree and replace the earth.
For peach trees, ordinary thick pasteboard
is better, as coal tar or any of the products
OF petroleum is sometimes injurious,
The proper way to give salt is to season
the food. When thrown in the trough
and licked up by the animals, salt some
times causes them to drink freely, which
Is not beneficial In very cold weather, IN
less the water be somewhat warm. Salt is
necessary for all classes OF stock but it is
more beneficial when given in the food.
Raw meat chopped fine and fed once
day will produce more eggs than any other
lOOu tuhb Cdu D6 given LUe Qeu. Oue DOQQu
OF rough meat to fifteen hens is sufficient.
The meat should be lean, and, if preferred,
may be cooked, but it gives better results
when given raw. 1t is not expensive when
the increased number of eggs is consid-
cred.
Though no person shonld allow the fami-
~ horse to depend upon grass alone, yet
owing to its being his natural food, he
should not be deprived of its use entirely.
When IN use, however, wing to its loosen
ing effects upon the bowels, IL should not
be fed to him, but when not in use grass,
with portion of good hay and grain,
forms an excellent ration.
In storing away garden seeds place them
in wooden bags, with a piece of gum-cam-
phor in each bag, and also dust the seeds
with insect powder. These methods will
protect the seeds sgainst insects, which
destroy many kinds such as peas, beans,
etc. All seeds should be kept in q dry
place, and an examination OF them should
be made several times during the winter.
1t is the general impression among farm
ers that il will not pay to raise fall pigs.
AS they are usually cared for (left TO shift
for themselves through the winter) this is
no doubt true; but where attention is
given 10 them, and they are provided With
warm quarters and proper food, they can
be kept through the winter with small
outlay, and should make satisfactory
growth.
When the grapeviues have been trained
on high frames for arbors they are less cub.
ject to rot as compared with those vines
that have been trained close to the ground.
The grapes that escaped the rot were those
growing near the top OF the arbor. This In
dicates that the nearer the grapes to the
groand the nearer they are TO the SD ores,
and that free circulation OF air Is partial
preventative.
A pig which while eating, takes it's head
out of the trough and acts as II the slop
had run the wrong way has the snillles.
He should be removed from the herd aud
cared for, as the disease is contagious. Put
pine tar in the slop and smear both the
nose and face with IL. Feed sulphur and
give turpentine. A free use of carbolic
acid, externally and internally, should also
be made.-rhe Hog.
The carcass of our sheep should be made
30 valuable by its ability to reproduce it.
self annually In value market lamb, and
sell when its turn comes to be turned into
money for a sum which would afford q
profit upon the cost, The fleece, as q Sc
condary consideration, should be made as
valuable as possible. To secure these re.
suits the skill OF breeders should be brought
to use TO improve all Of our sheep up TO
this standard.
Our orchards generally produce full crops
only every other year. This is because the
full crop Of one year SO exhausts the fruit
producing quallties of the soil that IL is not
able TO produce full crop the next year.
Give It good supply OF the proper kind
Of manure and thus make mp for the loss
of the fTuit-producing qualities OF the soil
and you may expect good crops every year
provided you treat your trees properly IN
other respects.
A writer In the Pioneer Press says that
his field OF green barley being threatened
by chinch bugs, be pleugbed a deep fur
row about the field and banked it. TAX
ing six-inch fence boards, he set them
along the bank, tapping and takIug them
down. Twice day he wet these boards
with kerosene about two inches from the
top, and the result was that When the bugs
approached they at once turned and
marched away.
An OK, a cow or six sheep will eat all the
grass that grows on an acre between April
and October, and no human labor will
have been expended in the process; but
the same are, we'll MANFRED, would pro-
duce thirty tons of roots, which would
feed at least five oxen for five months bet.
ter than the grasa led one for the same
time. Besides, the condition OF the land
for the land for the next years crop would
be greatly improved.